Experimental Design on Field: Teaching Methodology and Educational Experience

Learning Challenges And Benefits During The International Workshop On Urban Regeneration

“…Therefore, field trips proved to be essential for stimulating university students'/citizen's "involvement, critical thinking and sensitivity to place" (Stangel & Twardoch, 2016, p. 58). In this context, a series of educational experiments were realised recently, involving university students into urban regeneration projects (Buzasi & Csete, 2017;Caneparo & Bonavero, 2016;Fumo, Violano, & Castelluccio, 2017;Higueras, Gonzalez, & Lamiqiuiz, 2016;Sassano, Graziadei, Amato, & Murgante, 2017;Stangel & Witeczek, 2015;Stangel & Twardoch, 2016), with a strong emphasis on participants' interdisciplinary cooperation for urban identity recovery, while answering the needs of the local community (i.e. empowering it and involving it in urban planning choices).…”